DOM, Golden Girls @ Great Scott

DOM @ Great Scott, April 18th 2010
'Burn Bridges' - DOM

Golden Girls @ Great Scott, April 18th 2010
'Newports' - Golden Girls

photos by Lindsay Necarsulmer

ESKIMO T∆CO

The aways rad Jheri from Get Off The Coast put together this awesome mix featuring some seriously fresh tracks from a bunch of our favorite new artists including DOM, Weed Diamond, GOBBLE GOBBLE, Banjo or Freakout - and many more. Roll yourself a fat spliff and head over to GOTC and download the 13-track mix for free, and you might as well order a cd-r with a custom collaged sleeve while your at it.

Altered States

Springtime is upon us! And if for some reason your plans for the season don't include dropping acid in sun-soaked pastures, then the music of West Palm Beach's experimental trio Hear Hums may be the closest you'll get to full-fledged mind expansion (at least until summer).

The group sent over a track from their upcoming release, Psyche Cycles, which is due in the Fall; "Change" is five and a half minutes of tripped-out visual bliss layered carefully atop a frantic drum pulse, creating an ambient anthem that sounds simultaneously synthetic and natural.

Ingest the mp3 below and expect side effects for 6-14 hours. We're also including a live video of the band backed by some aesthetically pleasing projections of their own creation - here's to hoping they make it to the Northeast real soon.

'Change' - Hear Hums

Filled Lungs

Looks like Spring has sprung a little early this year and we're soaking up all of the ultraviolet rays we can get.  We've handpicked Jamaica Plain's own Eric J. Farber aka EASYBOY and his brand of waterlogged bedroom-pop to soundtrack this unnaturally sunny week in the Northeast.

"Chest Swimmers" is a doozy of a track - one that exemplifies Farber's acid-washed lo-fi through jangly guitar work and sing-song vocals.  Lyrical nostalgia i.e. "my empty ribcage echoes a beat of a heart that washed up on some faraway beach" paints a perfect image of the late-winter despondency that we've been fighting off with Vitamin D for months now.  The jam appears on EASYBOY 's  amazing debut cassette, Friends, which is available over at The Spooky Town. 

'Chest Swimmers' - EASYBOY

 

Won't Let You

Quilt is a three-piece experimental outfit that may have been transported directly from the 1970s and thrust onto the streets of our very own Boston, MA. We were lucky enough to see a super stripped down acoustic live show from the trio in a Chinatown loft last Wednesday. Their trippy arrangements and neo-soul group vocals were a refreshing change of pace and made for a hypnotic set of about six songs.

One of them, the powerfully hazy "Disco Music for Trees" played out like a psychedelic round complete with banjo twangs and a knee-slapping climax of howls that will leave you desperate for more tracks to wrap around yourself in the waning weeks of winter. Quilt has a cassette on sale now and a 7" due in the spring on Boston's resident lo-fi label Breakfast of Champs Records.

'Disco Music For Trees' - Quilt

Blackout Winter: Beach Fossils, Christmas Island, and The Beets @ The Cottage

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We're still a little unsure of this show's exact whereabouts - it's allegedly being held at a DIY venue/practice space called 'The Cottage' somewhere in Dorchester. So if you're in the Boston area this Thursday (Feb 11) be sure to fill a flask with your best bourbon and prepare to be intoxi-faded after guzzling down sets from not 1, not 2, but 3 of BW's favorite lo-fi/garage/surf acts. Acquaint yourselves with some essential tracks below and be on the look out for a definitive address for the gig, so we're not stumbling around foreign neighborhoods and missing out on what may be the sunniest Thursday night this side of Spring.

'Time' - Beach Fossils
'Twentynine' - Christmas Island
'What Did I Do' - The Beets

Update:
Address: 65 East Cottage St.
Cost: $4

Fever Chills

One of chillwave's brightest stars led us to the music of Mat Cothran aka Coma Cinema, a 21-year-old from South Carolina who's debut album Baby Prayers is available to download for our favorite price. "Flower Pills" and its trance inducing companion video demonstrate perfectly the short but oh-so-sweet sadness that envelopes Cothran's entire catalog. Listen, watch, and if you figure out how being bummed can sound so blissful, let us know.

"Flower Pills" - Coma Cinema

In Our Minds

Underwater Peoples records is home to a slew of 2010's most promising acts including Mountain Man, Fluffy Lumbers, and Rainbow Bridge. The label generously put a free compilation under all our Christmas trees this year, and while each of the artists made solid contributions, one track from Brooklyn's Air Waves shines through the lo-fi haze and has been intoxicating us for almost a month now. "Sweetness" is like tripping on acid for 3 minutes inside a temperature controlled bubble while a blizzard and sub-zero temperatures ravage the world around you - the upbeat simplicity of it all is sure to slap a shit-eating grin on your face even if everything you love is frozen.

"Sweetness" - Air Waves